Skipper looks to keep on skipping the process

If you are 'special' and have 'special' friends in 'special' places you get 'special' treatment. The 'special' one is Bob Skipper a 70 year old man that can't quite come to grips with the fact that he is 70, and that he is not the man he used to be.

The Oregonian Editorial Board is at it again. They want Bob Skipper to get a temporary certification. Of course, it has never been done before - but Bob Skipper is 'special.'

Process means nothing to them. It all about what they want. If this were someone other than Bob Skipper - the Board would not be seeking any special treatment.

Even though it is irrelevant, the Board couldn't help but cast another stone at Sheriff Giusto: "It's been awhile, at least since before former Sheriff Bernie Giusto took up "counseling" the wife of a friend he ordered hauled off to alcohol treatment . . . ."

They fail to mention that the 'friend' was the friend of the Board and at the time the chairman of the Citizen Crime Commission whose wife obtained a restraining order against her husband who had some issues with alcohol.

And, we don't want to mention the hypocrisy of the Oregonian in how they covered that story. Shameless journalism.

The board is not above bending the journalism light so that it shines where they want it. They mentioned that Mr. Skipper has 3 decades (actually 34 years) of service in law enforcement, but fails to mention that he has been away for 13 ½ years. [See Oregonian].

One wonders if there were not 'special' promises made to the 'special' person about avoiding the process.

This nonsense with Bob Skipper should have the Oregonian and its Board shining the journalism light on favoritism in politics, but wait - it is their guy - so now is not the time.

Lets not pretend that is anything other than political favoritism.

Sorry Mr. Skipper. By all accounts you are a rather decent person. But somehow you got hooked into this, and maybe pride is standing in the way. Now is the time to move on. Obtaining another pass on the process highlights an inability to pass a rather routine test.

It is immaterial whether the test is germane to the sheriff's duties, it is really an aptitude test that you have failed twice. It is doubtful, even if time permitted, that you could go through the 16 week certification process. But, if another pass, and anything happens on your watch - administrative or law enforcement - you will be the goat.